The New York Times reported in 2005 that DARPA had slashed its computer science funding for academics; by 2004, it had dropped to $123 million, down from $214 million in 2001. Tether defended the cuts, saying that he had not seen any fresh ideas from computer science departments. “The message of the complaints seems to be that the computer science community did good work in the past and, therefore, is entitled to be funded at the levels to which it has become accustomed,” Tether shot back, when faced with criticism.
